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191340880New York: The Macmillan Company 1913. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; dark blue cloth blocked and titled in burgundy and gilt on spine and front cover; viii 448 8pp ads. Neat contemporary owner's name and date to front endpaper a "Dr. L.W. Truman". Mild external wear with light rubbing to corners and spine ends; hinges very lightly pulled; a clean and unmarked copy easily Very Good. Among the more nuanced Socialist novels of the 'teens and according to Rideout one of the first serious portrayals of the I.W.W. in American fiction. The book is also noteworthy for offering a woman protagonist who in contrast to the formulaic society-girl-turned-socialist so common to the radical "conversion" novels of the period is here a sweatshop worker who must do battle with her instinctive militancy which initially attracts her to the IWW to finally join the Socialist Party. RIDEOUT p.294. HANNA 508. The Macmillan Company unknown books
194811989New York: Harper & Brothers 1948. First Edition. Octavo 24cm.; cloth boards; dustjacket; 603pp; illus. Clean Very Good copy of the first edition in lightly worn unclipped dustjacket Very Good or better. Inscribed by Eastman to his college roommate Ralph Erskine: "For Ralph my poet-brother from Max" dated in year of publication. Also laid in is a TLS on Eastman's letterhead to Ralph Erskine in Tryon North Carolina thanking him for a visit and recalling a conversation: ".it is good news that I persuaded you to be more chary of using the words that divide society into gangs.I felt the warm glow I used to when I was a kid going around reforming everybody. Harper & Brothers unknown books
191632490New York: John Lane Company 1916. Reissue. One of 699 sets of first printing sheets bound in a Boni & Liveright binding ca.1925 see Ahearn APG 008c - the sheets used for this reissue are second state with p.173-174 inserted. Thick octavo 24cm; navy blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 513 1pp. Text edges slightly dusty else very Near Fine. Dustjacket unclipped priced $5.00 slightly dusty overall with light wear to extremities a few nicks and tears and 1.25" of erosion along upper front flap; Very Good. "By 1914 Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer living in New York. He had not been back to his home state in over 20 years. When his friend Franklin Booth approached him with teh idea of driving from New York to Indiana Dreiser's response to Booth was immediate: "All my life I've been thinking of making a return trip to Indiana and writing a book about it." Along the route Dreiser recorded his impressions f the people and land in words while his traveling companion sketched some of these scenes. In this reflective tale Dreiser and Booth cross four states to arrive at Indiana and the sites and memories of Dreiser's early life in Terre Haute Sullivan Evansville Warsaw and his one year at Indiana University" Indiana University Press. Uncommon. John Lane Company unknown books
190518331Boston: L.C. Page & Company 1905. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; publisher's olive green pictorial cloth boards stamped in colors on spine and front cover; iv 1-415 2pp ads. Color frontispiece by Arthur W. Brown. Rubbing and wear to joints and extremities a few faint stains scattered to boards and both hinges starting mended with clear tape; a clean copy with the pictorial elements of the binding still bright and distinct - Very Good. Strike novel with a strong anti-union message set in the coal fields of southern Illinois. SMITH C-724. HANNA 788. Not in Blake. L.C. Page & Company unknown books
193446764N.p.: S.i. 1934. Holograph manuscript composed in dark blue ink on 152 numbered leaves rectos and housed in a bespoke chemise and slipcase by Barrieri. With presentation inscription from Cobb to MGM film produced and screenwriter Samuel Marx in pencil at upper right corner of title leaf: "Original manuscript copy for Sam Marx Esq / with my compliments / Irvin S. Cobb." A heavily-revised draft with extensive holograph additions and elisions in pencil and in pen throughout marking substantial textual differences between this and the final draft of the screenplay. Mild wear and handling; preliminary leaves with faint creasing to extremities with subtle toning to title leaf; Very Good or better. Slipcase with some light wear and minute board exposure to points around opening else Near Fine. Early unpublished manuscript treatment of the 1939 Paramount Studios film Our Leading Citizen directed by Alfred Santell with a screenplay by Jack Moffitt. A "Capital vs. Labor" story set in a once-small town that has evolved into an industrial city and centered around Lem Schofield an attorney and homespun philosopher and Clay Clinton son of Schofield's deceased partner. Clinton in love with Schofield's daughter and anxious for quick success joins the employ of J.T. Tapley the town's corrupt and influential industrialist. "When Tapley imposes a ten percent wage cut at his factory the workers walk out on strike precipitating a labor war. Lem immediately withdraws as Tapley's attorney but Clay ignorant of the nefarious tactics that Tapley is planning stays on. To crush the strike Tapley calls in a gang of strikebreakers led by Shep Muir. While pacifist union leader Jim Hanna struggles to end the strike peacefully communist agitator Jerry Perkins arrives in town to advocate radicalism and violence. Riots break out and amid an atmosphere of fear and suffering Lem steps in to quell the unrest. After insuring the arrest of agitators Peters and Muir Lem works to institute a labor settlement and Clay finally recognizing Lem's virtues nominates him for the position of United States Senator" TCM. While the final script faulted greedy capitalists and violent revolutionaries alike the film was blacklisted by V.J. Jerome head of the communist cultural commission who got an early look at the script and together with film critic Howard Rushmore deemed it potentially anti-communist. S.i. unknown books
195814929Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1958. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 73pp. Near Fine. Lengthy essay on the creative imperatives of Party-sponsored literature. Includes appendix by Shao Chuan-Lin "Clear the Road and Advance Boldly! Foreign Languages Press unknown books
193346256North Montpelier VT: Driftwood Press / Walter John Coates 1933. First Edition. Small slim 12mo 16cm.; publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers yapp edges; 238pp.; printed on stiff tan handmade stock. Light edge wear faint dampstaining along spine edge of upper and rear cover not bleeding into textblock; Very Good overall internally fine and unopened. "Driftwood Chapbook No. 2." Anthology edited by the founder of the "Rebel Poets" the present title including poems by Witter Bynner Stanton A. Coblentz Carl Sandburg and many others. From the introduction by the series editors: "They the editors share with Ralph Cheyney a preference for the spirit of Gandhi rather than the spirit of Lenin though admiring both men. They favor non-violent noncooperation over mass violence as a method of social change" p. 4. Driftwood Press / Walter John Coates unknown books
194032595Boston: Houghton Mifflin N.d. ca 1940s. Reprint. Octavo red cloth; 517pp. Very Good. An undistinguished reprint except that this copy bears a taped-in accession slip from the Danbury CT Federal Correctional Institution: "This item has been approved for quarters for the following inmate only completed in type: Name: Marzani. No. 7333-Ct. Date: January 15 1950." Signed in ink by William Berg Supervisor of Education. Carl Marzani 1912-1994 a CPUSA organizer and veteran of the Spanish Civil War became the central figure in a noted 1947 espionage trial when it was discovered that he had concealed his Communist Party membership during a three-year period of employment with the OSS precursor to the modern CIA during the Second World War. Marzani was convicted under the Espionage Act and served nearly three years in Danbury Prison. His radical activities did not diminish while he was behind bars; in fact in 1950 he was sentenced to seven months in solitary confinement after being caught attempting to smuggle out the manuscript for his critique of America's anti-Soviet posture during the Cold War later published as We Can Be Friends. After his release Marzani went on to become a leading radical publisher co-founding the radical publishing house Cameron Associates later Marzani & Munsell as well as The Liberty Book Club. A remarkable Cold-War survival the only example of its kind we have encountered. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
193334991New York: The Viking Press 1933. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; publisher's unbound signatures all edges untrimmed laid into the casing for the trade binding casing is only black cloth over boards without pastedowns; iv3035pp. Scattered foxing to text edges preliminary and terminal leaves; casing with splits along joints and light external wear; Very Good. "The story of a Georgia dirt farmer who digs holes in his ground for fifteen years hoping to find gold. The primary occupation indulged by he and his two sons is sex and outrageous details are given here in a humorous maner" Coan p.56. A social and economic study of poor whites and basis for the 1958 Anthony Mann film starring Robert Ryan Tina Louise and Aldo Ray. Scarce state of this major Southern novel likely issued as an advance copy for distribution to reviewers. HANNA 564. The Viking Press unknown books
194216900Truro MA: Pamet Press 1942. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards lettered in white on spine; dustjacket; 233pp. Light wear and fading to board extremities; jacket faded and with small losses at edges; Very Good. An odd left-wing political allegory set within a community of orchard-dwelling birds; Robin Red-Breast a class-conscious defector from the bourgeois ranks occupies the central and heroic role; sparrows comprise the proletariat; sparrow-hawks the Capitalists apparently of the avian kingdom and blue-jays their fascist lackeys are the villains. Boyden from an upper-middle-class Cape Cod background worked primarily as a poet her first collection Toward Equilibrium won the Midland Author's Prize for 1930. She was a member of the American Writer's Congress and was among the delegation of writers including Jack Conroy and Nelson Algren that traveled to Alabama in 1935 to challenge the state's sedition laws. The current work uncommon. Not in Hanna. Pamet Press unknown books
193939022Tromøy Norway 1939. Octavo 20.5cm.; contemporary blue cloth upper cover lettered in gilt decorative endpapers; 1454pp. typed on rectos only. Cloth very slightly worn spine a hint sunned shallow loss to front free endpaper fore-edge shallow creasing to three leaves else Very Good or better. Occasional autograph corrections in the author's hand throughout. German-born author poet editor and translator Max Barth began his career as an editor of the pacifist socialist paper Sonntags-Zeitung before founding his own radical socialist paper Die Richtung in 1932 at Stuttgart. The paper only survived a few issues before being confiscated by the Nazi-infiltrated Stuttgart populace the following year after which Barth fled to Switzerland. Found guilty of "High Treason" by the Third Reich Barth found himself exiled making his way to Norway from which this collection was compiled and finally the United States where he remained until after the end of World War II. <br/><br/>The present collection consists of seventy poems written between 1919 and 1939 including some previously unpublished selected for the author's sister and preceded by a letter of introduction addressed to her "Li Fri" and signed in manuscript "Max." In the letter Barth explains that the collection was compiled entirely with her in mind and includes certain pieces dear to him despite their lesser literary quality. In a final postscript the author notes that in the poem "Abseits" he has rhymed the word "Fjord" with "Spur" because the word "Fjord" in Norwegian is pronounced "Fjur." The letter is dated September 1 1939 the day the Germans invaded Poland leading France and Britain to declare war on Germany two days later thus marking the start of World War II. The author was certainly unaware of such developments as no mention is made to the catastrophic events simultaneously unfolding.<br/><br/>Reference: John M. Spalek and Joseph Strelka eds. Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur seit 1933 Vol. 2 1989 pp. 24-37. unknown books
194338551Buenos Aires: Los Antifascistas Italianos en Argentina 1943. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Plain card wrappers in pictorial dustwrapper; 203 2pp; frontispiece portrait. Warmly inscribed and signed inside front wrapper to American communists Bertram D. Wolfe and his wife Ella in year of publication: "For my dear comrades and friends Ella and Bert W. hoping that 1944 will be less cruel to humanity than its immediate predecessor." Expected marginal tanning to text else a sound attractive copy in a lightly worn dustwrapper. Translation by Balabanoff from the Italian of Il Traditore NY:1942. Text entirely in Spanish save the final page which reprints a poem in Italian "Inno dei Lavoratori" by Filippo Turati. Major association copy of one of Balabanoff's scarcest books. Angelica Balabanoff 1878-1965 an Italian Jew was among the founders of the Italian Communist Party in 1900; she joined the Russian Bolsheviks in 1917 and served as secretary of the Comintern from 1919-20 during which time she became closely affiliated with Lenin Trotsky Zinoviev and many others. She broke with the Bolsheviks and left Russia in 1922 after which she once again became active in the Italian Socialist party. During Mussolini's regime she went into exile first in Switzerland then Paris and briefly Mexico and Buenos Aires; finally New York City where she remained until the close of the war. Balabanoff wrote fluently in at least four languages publishing original works in Italian Spanish English and French and often as here providing her own translations for multilingual editions. The current copy inscribed by Balabanoff to the influential American communists and later anti-communists Bertram and Ella Wolfe comprises a significant association; Balabanoff and Ella Wolfe met during the former's war-time exile and remained lifelong friends; their correspondence housed at the Hoover Institution provided much of the source material for Maria Lafont's biographyThe Strange Comrade Balabanoff McFarland 2016. This edition rare; one physical copy only in OCLC Houghton; the preceding Italian and English-language editions also scarce represented by fewer than 5 copies each in institutional holdings. Los Antifascistas Italianos en Argentina unknown books
190942345Pasadena: Equitist Publishing House 1909. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Publisher's red cloth boards lettered in white on spine and front cover; 4282pp. Lettering mostly rubbed away on spine; front endpaper neatly removed else a tight Very Good copy. A fictional romance of the Single Tax movement set in California written by the wife of one of the movement's primary spokesmen Warren E. Brokaw. The Soul of the World received predictably favorable reviews within the Single Tax press but appears never to have found its way into the heart of a larger audience. Bachman was deaf from birth and died young from what is described in her obituary as "progressive paralysis." SMITH B-31. Missed by Hanna and not in Baird California Fiction. Scarce in commerce; about a dozen verifiable copies in U.S. institutions. Equitist Publishing House unknown books
200615921New York: Random House 2006. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 380pp; illus. Tight straight copy free of markings or wear in unworn dustwrapper. Near-new. Random House unknown books
189814090Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1898. Later Printing. 12mo 18cm. Original decorated wrappers; 289923pp. Covers rubbed and acidic text paper tanned as usual; still a complete tightly-bound copy Good. A long-forgotten but once popular Socialist future utopia originally published serially in the Chicago Times. The title page of this copy states "Twenty-Fifth Edition" and given the extraordinary lengths to which the publisher went to promote the book - including a six-page section of endorsements and order blanks for additional copies at rear at ten cents the copy - we don't doubt that Kerr may have sold out 24 previous printings. The catalog at rear also notes that copies were issued in cloth but we have only ever encountered the wrappered issue. The book was cheaply printed and despite the reputed profusion of printings is seldom encountered in good condition. BLEILER Checklist p.18; NEGLEY 10; SARGENT p.56; LEWIS p.1. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
195316263New York: People's Artists 1953. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; illustrated card wrappers; 23pp. Presentation copy inscribed by Edith Segal in October 1953: "To Lil Moishe & Paul warmest regards and heads up - Edith." Moderate cover wear; mild soiling within; Very Good. A collection of Segal's proletarian hymns following her widely-issued "Give Us Your Hand" which had been issued the year before to raise money for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's defense fund. The current volume contains a number of memorial poems to the Rosenbergs but is composed primarily of works on the theme of Morton Sobell an accused Soviet spy who had been swept up in the course of the Rosenberg affair. We have beeen unsuccessful in identifying "Lil Moishe and Paul" but from the tenor of Segal's inscription we would assume some connection to Sobell. People's Artists unknown books
191443988Riverside CT: Hillacre 1914. First Edition. One of 165 copies printed on Omadaka Japan paper from a total edition of 200. Small quarto 25cm; brown paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's original glassine overlay and paper-covered slipcase; 22pp. Fine in Very Good example of the glassine gently sunned and with a few nicks at spine and a shallow loss to lower left corner of rear panel; slipcase lightly edgeworn with a few thin splits along one of the rear joints; Very Good. Giovannitti an Italian emigre Socialist and IWW organizer devoted his life in more or less equal measure to the writing of poetry and to sowing the seeds of discontent. Occasionally as in the current work - a profound indictment of "rotting traditions and living men" written while imprisoned in the Salem Massachusetts jail for his role in the Lawrence Textile Strike - he managed to do both at once. Uncommon in this condition particularly with the glassine present. Hillacre unknown books
197916393Beijing: Foreign Languages Press 1979. First English Language Edition. 12mo. Original pictorial card wrappers; 64pp 10 leaves of photographic plates halftones. Covers slightly rubbed with spot of sticker residue at head of front wrapper else Near Fine. Collection of poems produced during the first state-sponsored Tiananmen Incident in April 1976 when hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens rallied to commemorate the late premier Zhou Enlai and to effect the state-ordained downfall of the Gang of Four. Includes ten leaves 20 pages of photographic illustrations. Foreign Languages Press unknown books
192451456New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1924. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 22.5cm; blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; blue topstain; 1011-336pp. Sunning to spine faint forward lean with modest external wear; faint internal foxing with a few small stains in text and some rough erasure to upper margin of title page; Very Good only. Tully's second and most celebrated book a memoir of his hobo youth. One of the "big three" American hobo books along with Ben Reitman's Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha and Tom Kromer's Waiting for Nothing; and the source for William Wellman's well-regarded 1928 film of the same name which starred Richard Arlen in the role of young Tully and Wallace Beery as his sidekick Oklahoma Red. Albert & Charles Boni unknown books
194447333New York: Reynal and Hitchcock 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.25cm; yellow cloth with titles stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x1793pp. Signed by Miller in blue ball-point pen on the title page. Spine ends gently nudged some trivial wear to lower board edges with a hint of sunning to upper board edges and a faint shallow stain to lower edge of rear cover; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 with two tiny tears at crown and a faint vertical crease along left joint; a bright very Near Fine example. Laid into this copy is an untitled seven-page carbon typescript on onionskin 8" x 10.5" written by Miller in 1943 relating details about the book's conception; horizontal fold at center staple holes at upper left corner with two neat punctures along left margin; Very Good. Attractive copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's first book based on his experiences researching the war correspondence of journalist Ernie Pyle. The title derives from the widely-used military acronym slang "SNAFU" Situation Normal: All Fucked Up which translates to a bad situation that is a normal state of affairs. Miller was tasked by Hollywood to gather material for "an honest movie" about American GI's during the war about their training daily life their hopes dreams and why they are fighting. Miller visited several Army camps training living and interviewing soldiers and taking down the unvarnished truth of his discoveries. "I was the person fate picked out of Brooklyn to go among the soldiers and pick up enough facts honest-to-God true facts to make a soldier picture which soldiers could sit through until the end without once laughing in derision. A picture that would properly end all soldier pictures" p.1. The film in question was William A. Wellman's The Story of G.I. Joe to be adapted by Miller for Lester Cowan from Pyle's 1943 book This Is Your War. Miller version was ultimatley not produced likely due to ideological differences and his communist sympathies. The typescript written the year before Situation Normal was published summarizes the conception of the book detailing his early meetings with Ernie Pyle over how his work would be translated into film and what they wanted to accomplish. "I bring up the idea that it would be a shame to show this massive canvas without reducing what is chaos to at least an inkling of purpose and order and of course he agrees. But we both feel that to lard on ideology where there is no ideology would be to wrap the truth. You can't have soldiers talking about four freedoms when all they want is to go home. Myself I curse the press and the million textbooks that turn out the billions of words and never add up to an excuse for dying" typescript p.5. A superlative copy of an important debut. Reynal and Hitchcock unknown books
196947929Hamburg: Quer-Verlag 1969. Second Expanded edition. Oblong 16mo ca. 7x13cm.; original red staplebound card wrappers taped into cloth tape-backed sharp aluminum boards decorative element mounted to upper cover; 61ll. printed mimeographed on white and red paper. Old ballpoint manuscript spine title boards a bit tarnished else Very Good or better contents fresh and fine. Rubberstamp to upper cover: "Notwehrtauglich" "suitable for self-defense" the title page describing this as "Handliche mit scharfen kanten ausgestettatet kampfausgabe für die phase des revolutionären widerstands" a "handy sharp-edged combat edition for the next phase in revolutionary resistance" - our/google's translation. Collection of rhymed chants first issued by the author's publishing house Quer-Verlag in 1968 for members of the German Student Movement and the protests staged that year. The author the son of a dock worker was himself a member of the leftist literary group Hamburg Linksliteratisch. This work a curious example of a book as weapon in the literal sense the boards' fore-edges extending beyond the text block and are both sharp and the corners quite pointed so that while the book is small enough to fit in the palm of one's hand one can imagine the harm it could do to a vulnerable jugular. Quite scarce OCLC locates three copies of any edition in the United States as of March 2020 at Yale U. Iowa and Harvard. Quer-Verlag unknown books
192847926New York: Boni & Liveright 1928. First Edition. Octavo ca. 20cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Irving Politzer; 272pp. Light chipping and a few short closed tears to jacket extremities spine very slightly sunned; Near Fine in Very Good still quite brilliant jacket. Hard-boiled novel by the sometime vagrant novelist Maxwell Bodenheim following the fate of Georgie May a "vicious sullen cocotte" living in an unnamed city in Arkansas. The work was published on the heals of Bodenheim and Liveright's obscenity trial for the former's earlier novel "Replenishing Jessica" 1925 advertised on the rear jacket panel: "Bodenheim is certainly an iconoclast--but there is no question of the perfect study he has made of a lustful woman nor is there a single offensive word in the book." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Similarly a contemporary critic wrote "'Georgie May' wallows in a sea of bilge and is bound to nauseate the super-sensitive Bay State censors though paradoxically there is nothing stench-like in Bodenheim's vivid novel" Times Union Brooklyn June 3 1928. HANNA 376. Boni & Liveright unknown books
193347057Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co 1933. First Thus. Octavo 22.5cm. Original pictorial publisher's boards in matching dustwrapper; 50pp; illus; four inserted leaves of mechanical plates on card-stock. A bright Very Good or better copy with all mechanical plates present and in working condition retaining the scarce pictorial dustwrapper which is lightly soiled with small losses to extremities scuffed at folds and with a 1" closed tear at crown of spine; just Very Good. Bannerman's original version of this racist children's classic was set in India and even the earliest versions of the book contained illustrations that clearly drew upon negative colonial stereotypes. Langston Hughes noted that Little Black Sambo was a work of the "pickaninny variety.amusing undoubtedly to the white child but like an unkind word to one who has known too many hurts to enjoy the additional pain of being laughed at" quoted at www.historyonthenet.com. <br/><br/>Though public opposition to the Sambo books had begun in earnest by the early 1930s Kurt Wiese's illustrations for this edition brought clearly African features to the character of Sambo reinforcing the pickaninny stereotype. This mechanical version is not listed in Baumgarten and is apparently the only edition of Sambo to include Wiese's illustrations. Rare in dustwrapper. Garden City Publishing Co unknown books
1950WRCLIT70923Annandale-on-Hudson 1950. V:1-4. Four issues with index bound in cloth original wrappers bound in for J. Laughlin. Spine a shade sunned otherwise very good. Edited T. and Renée Weiss and others. An important quarterly devoted to "stimulation and innovation rather than on consolidation evaluation and scholarly taste-making" - T. Weiss in 1974. Contributors to this volume include Watkins Merrill the special Pound issue separate broadside bound in Williams Zukofsky Wilbur Eberhart Goodman et al. ANDERSON & KINZIE pp.730-1. HOFFMAN et al p. 366. hardcover books
1956WRCLIT70924Annandale-on-Hudson 1956. VIII:1-4. Four issues bound in cloth original wrappers bound in for J. Laughlin. Spine a shade sunned otherwise very good. Edited T. and Renée Weiss and others. An important quarterly devoted to "stimulation and innovation rather than on consolidation evaluation and scholarly taste-making" - T. Weiss in 1974. Contributors to this volume include Corman H. Duncan Merrill Fitts Golffing Ashbery Niedecker Lattimore Garrigue Stevens Char Eberhart Watkins Zukofsky Goodman Wright et al. ANDERSON & KINZIE pp.730-1. HOFFMAN et al p. 366. hardcover books
